48 CFR · Federal Acquisition Regulation and Defense supplement

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19 sections with “developed exclusively at private expense”

  • DFARS 252.227-7013 Rights in Technical Data—Other Than Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …ctor or any such first-tier subcontractor in furnishing end items or services of the type developed or produced on the program or effort; and (2) Receives access to technical data or computer software for performance of a Government contra…
  • DFARS 252.227-7014 Rights in Other Than Commercial Computer Software and Other Than Commercial Computer Software Documentation.
    …5) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Commercial computer software means software developed or regularly used for nongovernmental purposes which— (1) Has been sold, leased, or licensed to the public; (2) Has been offered for sale,…
  • DFARS 252.227-7015 Technical Data—Commercial Products and Commercial Services.
    …ctor or any such first-tier subcontractor in furnishing end items or services of the type developed or produced on the program or effort; and (2) Receives access to technical data or computer software for performance of a Government contra…
  • DFARS 252.227-7018 Rights in Other Than Commercial Technical Data and Computer Software—Small Business Innovation Research Program and Small Business Technology Transfer Program.
    …5) (a) Definitions. As used in this clause— Commercial computer software means software developed or regularly used for nongovernmental purposes which— (1) Has been sold, leased, or licensed to the public; (2) Has been offered for sale,…
  • DFARS 252.227-7037 Validation of Asserted Restrictions on Technical Data.
    …o a commercial product or commercial service are justified on the basis that the item was developed exclusively at private expense. The Contracting Officer will not issue a challenge unless there are reasonable grounds to question the valid…
  • DFARS 227.7103-13 Government right to review, verify, challenge, and validate asserted restrictions.
    …e. Contracting officers shall presume that a commercial product or commercial service was developed exclusively at private expense whether or not a contractor or subcontractor submits a justification in response to a challenge notice. The c…
  • DFARS 227.7104-2 Rights in SBIR or STTR data.
    … the clause. (2) SBIR/STTR data rights in all other technical data and computer software developed or generated under the phase I, II, or III SBIR/STTR contract or subcontract and marked with the SBIR/STTR data rights marking. SBIR/STTR da…
  • FAR 2.101 Definitions.
    …e or lease, whether the supplies or services are already in existence or must be created, developed, demonstrated, and evaluated. Acquisition begins at the point when agency needs are established and includes the description of requirements…
  • DFARS 207.106 Additional requirements for major systems.
    …ively reprocure identical items or components of the system if the item or component were developed exclusively at private expense, unless the contracting officer determines that— (1) The original supplier of the item or component will be …
  • FAR 12.211 Technical data.
    …ng officer shall presume that data delivered under a contract for commercial products was developed exclusively at private expense. When a contract for commercial products requires the delivery of technical data, the contracting officer sha…
  • DFARS 227.7203-5 Government rights.
    …ted rights. The Government obtains an unlimited rights license in— (1) Computer software developed exclusively with Government funds; (2) Computer software documentation required to be delivered under a Government contract; (3) Correctio…
  • DFARS 227.7103-4 License rights.
    …perform, display or disclose technical data pertaining to items, components, or processes developed exclusively at private expense (limited rights). They may not restrict the Government's rights in items, components, or processes developed …
  • DFARS 227.7103-5 Government rights.
    …hat are— (1) Data pertaining to an item, component, or process which has been or will be developed exclusively with Government funds; (2) Studies, analyses, test data, or similar data produced in the performance of a contract when the stu…
  • DFARS 227.7103-6 Contract clauses.
    …cal data pertaining to any portion of a commercial product or commercial service that was developed in any part at Government expense, and the clause at 252.227-7015 will govern the technical data pertaining to any portion of a commercial p…
  • DFARS 227.7102-4 Contract clauses.
    …cal data pertaining to any portion of a commercial product or commercial service that was developed in any part at Government expense, and the clause at 252.227-7015 will govern the technical data pertaining to any portion of a commercial i…
  • DFARS 227.7203-1 Policy.
    … award, to sell or otherwise relinquish to the Government any rights in computer software developed exclusively at private expense except for the software identified at 227.7203-5(a) (3) through (6). (d) Offerors and contractors shall not …
  • DFARS 252.227-7017 Identification and Assertion of Use, Release, or Disclosure Restrictions.
    …other than computer software documentation) pertaining to items, components, or processes developed at private expense, identify both the deliverable technical data and each such items, component, or process. For computer software or comput…
  • DFARS 227.7203-4 License rights.
    …pyright license, under an irrevocable license granted or obtained by the contractor which developed the software or documentation or the licensor of the software or documentation if the development contractor is not the licensor. The contra…
  • DFARS 234.7002 Policy.
    …offeror may be required to submit such information with regard to any other item that was developed exclusively at private expense only after the head of the contracting activity determines in writing that the information submitted pursuant…

FAR (chapter 1)

DFARS (chapter 2, Defense)

Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Rule changes in progress: FAR, DFARS. Terms: glossary.